Steam Engines

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Across
  1. 3. The boiler on this crowded steamboat exploded in 1865.
  2. 4. This person improved Newcomen's engine in the 1760s.
  3. 5. Energy that can be used to do work.
  4. 6. This person built the steam engine in 1712.
  5. 9. Becomes larger in size, amount, or volume.
  6. 12. This person built a high pressure steam engine in England in the early 1800s.
  7. 15. This person built the first money-making river steamboat in 1807.
  8. 16. This appliance requires 560 lbs of coal to work for one year, for one family.
  9. 17. A large tank used to store heated water.
Down
  1. 1. To blow up or burst with a sudden release of energy.
  2. 2. A type of machine with moving parts that uses steam power to create motion.
  3. 7. Vehicles that act as large engines to pull or push railroad cars along tracks.
  4. 8. This appliance requires 256 lbs of coal to work for one year, for one family.
  5. 10. This appliance requires 3,375 lbs of coal to work for one year, for one family.
  6. 11. Relating to a heavy petroleum product used as fuel in large vehicles such as trucks and buses.
  7. 13. A new device or process.
  8. 14. Physical force placed on an object.
  9. 18. This appliance requires 4,380 lbs of coal to work for one year, for one family.